GOSSIP FROM WELLINGTON.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 59, 11 March 1901, Page 3

GOSSIP FROM WELLINGTON.

The Wellington Free Lance states :

That the sale of flowers stolon from graves is still a thriving industry. That carpenters are making between 13s and 14s a day on the Otago Central just now.

That the lady bilcist, who had a dispute with a cartwheel one day last week, should try to keep her head clear in a streettrafiic crisis.

That, at. a Timaru sports meeting, tho baud was told by an excited Scotty to stop its noise as the music was just about to commence. The li music ” was the bagpipes !

That quite a number of fair tea drinkers are under medical treatment for “ nerves” just now, according to a local doctor. Over-indulgence in tea leaf seems to be almost as bad as too much hops.

That, when the rcd-coatcd fire brigadesmen passed through Wellington last week, en route to the Southern competitions,, some people jumped to the conclusion they must be the Indian troops in undress uniform.

That a certain suburbanite has been named De Wet, on account of tho way in which he eludes liis creditors.

, That a Wellingtonian is said to have been for some time past engaged on 1 the invention of a new kind of torpedo.

That Palmerston North Councillors—or some of them—are becoming export in the scientific art of mud-throwing, That there’s not much fun in/dragging rivers and creeks for days for.<a man who has quietly left the district.. That a fruitless attempt was lately made to secure the early discharge of one of the colony’s best-known criminals.

- That a local lady, who was discovered pilfering from a certain magnate’s mansion is being quietly banned by her highpositioned acquaintances. ; That two rings worn by a recent bride are said to have been worth much more than the furniture and fittings contained in her new house.

That a very youthful couple, who silently and secretly got' married at Palmerston a fortnight back, have returned to the city, and [resumed their respective avocations,